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i AM WITH tESCO.nET & WISH TO MIGRATE TO bt total broadband OR sky but wish to keep my existing Tesco.Net E-Mail address permanently...how do I ensure this happens without the need to contact thousands of people about an e-mail address change??
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212I'm afraid you can't, not without paying Tesco for a service to forward your emails if they offer it.
The only way to do this is to have an email address that is separate from your provider.
Hotmail or Google provide free ones, and you can pay to have a bigger inbox with hotmail. You can still access your email using a Windows Live Mail or Outlook client.
Posted on 18 January 2009 |
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824I don't know about Tesco, but normally your old email address is not shut off immediately. There is usually a long enough period for people to get used to the new address, if that is what you are worried about?
There will always be one person who never gets round to changing your contact details. Don't worry about them. If they can't be bothered to change your details, do you really want them?
Changing addresses, occasionally, also has benefits, such as getting rid of a spam build-up.
If you use Outlook, for instance, you would need to set up 2 accounts, temporarily, so that you receive emails from both servers but set your new server as sender for both accounts.
Set up an automatic signature to include a message to remind people to change your address in their contact lists.
Posted on 18 January 2009 | Love 0 loves
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0It might be possible to change your tesco broadband to dial-up only, which is cheaper. Most ISPs allow you to access your email as normal even if you are not connecting to the internet via them at the time you collect your email.
Google mail (aka gmail outside the UK) allows you to access your using your email program (outlook, thunderbird etc). You have to access via the webmail interface once every so often. However google do datamining on your email and give you targeted ads. If you are concerned about your privacy be sure to delete your browser's cookies and power cycle your cable modem (this normally will change your IP number). Google can use either to link your gmail account to your web seaarches.
Posted on 18 January 2009 | Love 0 loves
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0you will need to contact everyone about anemail address change, it is unlikely Tescos will allow you to keep your email account running forever without paying....
One way round this in the future is to set up your own website (choose a domain name) have it hosted (cheaply) and just use it for emails only.
this means you are not relient of your ISP for emails
Posted on 18 January 2009 | Love 0 loves
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1I changed from Tesco dialup to PlusNet Broadband about 5 years ago. However, I am still using my Tesco email address. Not only that, years after leaving Tesco, I set up a Tesco email address for my wife.
All you do is configure Outlook (or whatever) to go fetch your emails from Tesco. The connectivity provider doesn't seem to matter.
I guess one day they might chop me off, but so far so good.
Posted on 19 January 2009 | Love 0 loves
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0If Tesco maintains your email address after changing to a different ISP, your problem will be solved for you - however, not all ISPs will do this and I'm not sure whether Tesco will maintain your email address forever.
In the long term I suggest getting your own domain - companies such as ukreg.com offer .uk domains from around £3 per year including email forwarding to any address you choose. For very little money you can have your own memorable domain name for life. If [yourname].co.uk is not available, there are other options such as .me.uk.
Posted on 19 January 2009 | Love 0 loves
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